Permanency Case Manager

$23.00 - $24.16 per hour

* Offers based on education and years of relevant experience

POSITION SUMMARY: Provides case management services with a focus on permanency to include individual, family, and group interventions to the youth and youth families served by the agency. Works well in an interdisciplinary treatment team including social work, psychiatry, nursing, educational, and paraprofessional staff. Maintains all record keeping requirements, correspondence, and documentation needed to conduct the most professional case management. Promotes equality practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:
1. Provides case management services to the youth assigned.
2. Build positive and collaborative relationships with county, direct care staff, youth and families and systems.
3. Facilitates youth referrals to other agencies or service providers as requested and appropriate and provides aftercare to link to school, employment, mental health services and/or housing as indicated based on treatment plan.
4. Maintains timeliness and quality of written reports, FASP and records.
5. Works in collaboration with the Licensed Behavioral Health Practitioner in providing reports, assessments, supplementary information such as employment, medical records, or school reports to be included in Family Court reports or treatment plans.
6. Serve as a liaison and ambassador for the agency and the community while working collaboratively with permanency support programs.
7. Serves as an advocate for children and families.
8. Participates in multi-disciplinary treatment team to collaborate and coordinate services for youth i.e., health services, school, appointments, activities family time, schedules and community supports.
9. Attends CSE meetings for youth.
10. Actively participates in regularly scheduled supervision.
11. Ensures that departmental and agency policies are followed in the course of their duties.
12. Provides direct services at all office locations, in family’s home and community.
13. Engage with youth to build healthy relationships, provide crisis support, partner with the family to prepare and maintain consistent family time.
14. Partner with the family to develop and review home safety plans, incorporating external safety assessments/court orders.
15. Maintains and manages case records in accordance with OCFS, Department of Social Services, Family Court and CSE guidelines documenting diligent effort to achieve permanency and transitions.
16. Engage youth in the creation of their individualized Lifebook.
17. Enroll and participate with youth in external permanency resources i.e., Blue Book, photo listing, adoption resources, Family Finding Events, Heart Gallery, and Family Fest.
18. Case plan and/or provide aftercare services as contracted by LDSS with NDYFS.
19. Case plan and/or complete Transition Plan with youth.
20. Attend permanency resource trainings i.e., family finding training, case mining, kinship and kin-gap opportunities.
21. Exploring community resources with youth to meet the youth’s level of independent living skills for successful transition to permanency.
22. Knowledgeable about ICWA and form working relationships with SNY Indian nations.
23. Screen adoptive resources and complete home studies for freed youth.
24. Facilitate permanency round tables with multi-disciplinary teams regularly.
25. Assist clients with applying for SSI, Access VR, or College (FASFA).
26. Assist youth in obtaining new social security card, birth certificates or other documents for transition.
27. Assist youth in completing annual credit checks.
28. Assist youth in obtaining legal documents pertinent to permanency planning, i.e., custody, TPR, Voluntary Surrender Agreements, etc.
29. Provide in-service training to the multidisciplinary team.
30. May serve as Independent Reviewer for Service Plan Reviews.
31. Prepare reports, petitions, and attend family court.
32. Attend all mandated agency trainings and updates which include but are not limited to: Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Certification and First Aid/CPR Training as provided by Agency.
33. Follows Agency protocols for Incident Reporting.
34. All other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

SKILL, QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Education and/or Professional Qualifications/Skills
• Masters degree preferred.
• Minimum Bachelors degree required.
• One to two years related experience or training.

Special – Personal Skills, Qualities, Aptitudes and Physical Requirements
New Directions Youth & Family Services, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform essential functions.
1. Ability to work effectively with youth, families, staff and community contacts from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
2. Ability to deal effectively with youth and/or families.
3. Ability to accept supervision and perform as part of a team.
4. Ability to be flexible and adapt to change.
5. Ability to interface with people (groups and individuals) and communicate within various mediums (logbooks, E-mail, telephone).
6. Must have a valid driver’s license, adequate auto insurance and meet the criteria for driving set forth in the New Directions Driver’s License policy and Auto Insurance policy.
7. Ability to pass annual physical for Category 2 job classification in accordance with New Directions Employee Health policy.
8. Must comply with Agency safety standards and be responsible for own actions and conduct concerning safety and healthy working conditions.